The First Bible of the Church: A Plea for the Septuagint

By Møgens Müller and Mogens Müller

The First Bible of the Church describes of the shape of the Jewish Bible at the time of the New Testament, with a special focus on the significance of the Greek translation, the Septuagint. The Jewish defence of the Septuagint version and its reception into the early Church makes it a representative of the Jewish Bible tradition fully on a par with the Hebrew Bible. This fact is especially important because the Septuagint is extensively used in the New Testament writings, whereby it-and not the Hebrew Bible (the Masoretic text)-is the most obvious candidate for the title of the first Bible of the Church.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567273202
• ISBN13: 9780567273208
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"